Slavery in the City: Death Of Intern At Merrill Lynch Sparks Furore Over Long Hours And Macho Culture – Serious concerns have been raised tonight about the punishing hours endured by interns at City investment banks following the death of a young Bank of America Merrill Lynch employee. [independent]
Huge Child-Porn Ring Smashed – Police have cracked what is believed to be South Africa’s biggest child pornography ring – with links to Canada, the UK, the US, western Europe and Australasia – after the arrest of six people. [timeslive]
Arms Deal Back Under The Microscope – The Seriti Commission of Inquiry, which is looking at alleged corruption in the 1999 arms deal, is set to resume in Pretoria on Wednesday with Rear Admiral Robert Higgs expected to take the stand. [iol]
Amazon Lost R1.25 Million a Minute When Their Site Went Down This Week – When you’re an online retail giant, every second that your website stays inaccessible means thousands of dollars out the virtual door. [geekwire]
Your Billion Rand Heads-Up – Just a courteous heads-up to let you know that Friday’s EuroMillions lottery jack is sitting on R1.2 billion (€93 million). You can get tickets online from South Africa [here]
Maria Sharapova Tries To Legally Change Her Name To ‘Maria Sugarpova’ – Maria Sharapova plans to change her surname to ‘Sugarpova’ for the duration of the upcoming tennis Grand Slam, the US Open. [yahoo]
US Teens Charged With Killing Australian For Fun – Prosecutors on Tuesday charged two teenagers accused of gunning down an Australian student in Oklahoma for the “fun of it” with first-degree murder, and a third teen with being an accessory. [fox]
Hasselhoff Sign Theft: Worker Fights For Life – A shop worker has been left critically injured trying to stop the theft of two signs featuring Baywatch and Knight Rider star David Hasselhoff. [lbc]
Eminem Concert Girl Cyber-Bullied, Hospitalized After Oral Sex Photos Go Viral – A girl has been hospitalized after photos of her giving oral sex at an outdoor concert exploded on the Internet. The girl, who according to some reports is 17 years old, was photographed at an Eminem concert in Ireland on Saturday. [huffpo]
Capitec Is The Cheapest Bank In The Country – Capitec Bank is still the cheapest bank in the country, according to a comparative study by trade union Solidarity’s Research Institute. [mail&guardian]
Judge Approves Kodak Plan to Exit Bankruptcy – Kodak doesn’t look a whole lot like it did when it filed for bankruptcy protection last year, but its executives and investors are hoping for a picture-perfect future. [abc]
Pule Suspended From Parliament – Disgraced former communications minister Dina Pule was reprimanded and suspended by Parliament on Tuesday for the scandal that saw her boyfriend benefit from state funding. [news24]
Timerberlake And ‘N Sync To Rock VMAs On Sunday – With last year’s NKOTBSB tour (that’s New Kids on the Block and Backstreet Boys) still fresh in our minds, we finally might be getting the ’N Sync reunion we really wanted all along. [vulture]
Gunman Fires AK-47 At Texas School – Hits Nothing – A gunman who opened fire at a Georgia elementary school on Tuesday was armed with an AK-47 “and a number of other weapons,” police said. [cnn]
Kanye West Stops By Kris Jenner’s Talk Show For Interview — Kris Jenner worked her magic — and familial connections, of course — to land an interview with the typically media-shy Kanye West, the father of her granddaughter North. Kanye stopped by the set of Kris on Monday to tape an hour-long interview that will air this week. [ew]
Shocking Vine Video Captures Truck Flying Over Guardrail – In what looks like a Hollywood chase scene, a recently-posted Vine video shows a pickup truck with a lawnmower in tow flying over the guardrail of an elevated highway. [mashable]
Flashback: Billy Joel Covers Bob Dylan in the Soviet Union – Not many people realized it at the time, but the Cold War was coming to an end when Billy Joel came to Russia for a historic six-date tour in the summer of 1987. [rollingstone]
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